Analysis of Corporate Behavior Using General Chart : An Empirical Chronological Study

本研究调查了公司变革的原因。它要求澄清经济状况与规范变革进程和公司活动的体制因素之间的关系。在此基础上，制作了公司的系谱图，根据公司成立到清算的社会环境，分析了公司的延续、扩张、合并、分立、业务转移、分立等行为。结果，企业活动的变化以系谱图的形式呈现出来。调查对象是从6大企业集团中选出的46家企业，调查时期为第二次世界大战后。此外，本研究所使用的资料主要是各公司的财务报表及网页，主要研究结果如下：1.通过对变革原因的分析，验证企业变革过程与经济、制度因素的关系.验证用于变更过程调查的数据的有效性.四、调查、审查、评估公司家谱图之制作方法。为46家公司制作家谱图。系谱图的实用性验证。作为研究的局限性，由于记载了各种变化原因，在使用数据时出现了一些问题。虽然近年来6大企业集团的影响力有所下降，但它们对战后日本经济的影响力不容忽视。本研究旨在验证企业活动与经济状况的关联性，以及公司变革过程中的制度因素。

This research investigated the reasons why a company changes. It required clarification of the relationships between economic situations and the institutional factors that regulate the process of change and corporate activity. In doing so, the company's genealogical chart was created.That is, the company's actions that aim at continuation, expansion, development for combination and division, transfer of business, or creation of a separate company, were analyzed according to the social environment from the formation to liquidation of the company. As a result, the changes in corporate activities were shown in genealogical charts.The 46 companies investigated were chosen from 6 big business groups, and the period for investigation is the period after World War II. Moreover, the data primarily used in this project was the financial report and homepage of each company.Our main research results were as follows.1. Verification of the relationships of the process of change in a company and the economical and institutional factors by analysis of reasons for change.2. Verification of validity of data used for investigation of the process of change.3. Investigation, examination, and evaluation of the method of creating the company genealogical charts.4. Creation of genealogical charts for 46 companies.5. Verification of the usefulness of genealogical charts.As a study limitation, it became clear that there was a little problem in using the data due to the notation of various reasons for change.Although the influence of the 6 big-business groups has decreased in recent years, their influence on postwar Japanese economy cannot be overlooked.In this study we intended to verify the relevance of corporate activity, an economic situation, and institutional factors in the process of company changes.